“This regulation gives consumers more choices, and consumers are better off with more choices,”
Wow! Did that statement actually come from a federal govt. bureaucrat??? Do they actually believe that consumers have enough brains to make intelligent choices??? Who woulda guessed? /S
I don’t see myself buying incandescents again. I’m slowing replacing the last of my CFLs with LEDs. Some early LEDs (candelabra base) are getting replaced with new ones that look like they have filaments.
I recently tried LED light bulbs for the first time and I’m impressed.
“This rule does not prevent consumers from buying the lamps they desire, including efficient options,”
Whazzis!? Where are the options?
I personally prefer the new light bulb technology to the old. But I DEFINITELY prefer free markets to regulated markets.
So glad Obama is gone.
I stockpiled 100 watt bulbs, so the new rules won’t change my buying habits, since I won’t need any for at least five years. I really do read better and concentrate better with them. I think it’s both the brightness and the warmth that are factors.
We hate LED bulbs and are delighted to see these regulations bite the dust.
For certain applications (vanity mirror bulbs, some can lights, some flood lamps) it is not easy to find an LED that has both the right shape and brightness. The fluorescent lights that were being pushed a few years earlier can wreak havoc with some epileptics and others who are prone to seizures.
Does this mean Elaine will be able to use the E-Z Bake Oven again?
You know that batter is like 30 years old.
About time but appreciated. My stash of incandescents is still hanging in there but my 60W supply is running low.
Next? LOW FLOW TOILETS! Enough with the ersatz environmental insanity!!!
Barack Obama. Jeffrey Immelt. White House visits. Incandescent ban. CFL mandated. GE: $0 Federal taxes in 2010 (as I recall).
The patent on incandescent bulbs had long since expired. CFL was protected by patent.
Immelt gave Obama support. Obama facilitated the ban.
That is fascism.
My church saved $80,000 per year on the electric bill by relamping with LED’s. Government force is not needed when the economic impetus is there.
I haven’t bought a regular bulb in years as I have a stockpile in the house.
On the other hand, some lights I have need long lasting LED bulbs. Some are good for 13 years! I found they only last as long as a regular 100 watt bulb.
Just glad we didn’t get stuck with those miserable CFLs.
I do wonder what Friedrich Hayek would say about this whole lightbulb thing, though. LEDs are superior to incandescents yet they probably wouldn’t have been developed if not for the government intervening. Nor do we seem to have suffered much in the way of unintended negative consequences. Is it possible the government’s coercive action has yielded a better net result than if it had stayed on the sidelines?
I buy LED’s because they run far cooler than indandescent, and the light with the GOOD ones is just as good if not better. I live in florida, and not only are you paying money to CREATE all that extra heat, you are paying more to REMOVE that heat. No thanks.
Not all LED bulbs are the same though, find one you like and stick with it. I prefer high CRI with a temp of about 3000k.
a day late and a dollar short: LED bulbs have finally been improved to the point that one can buy high quality LED bulbs of brightness equal to incandescents as well as color profiles equal to incandescents (3500K), though i now prefer the 3000K bulbs. likewise one can buy high output 3000K 4’ & 8’ fluorescent tubes that put out more lumens/watt than LEDs ...
Yes LED Technology has become mainstream. Yes its Good that we are more free of govt regulation.
Now toilets....